Someday We’ll Change the Words Again

Sometimes a hit song or a great concert idea just falls into your lap. Sometimes it takes months to get a song right. The song “Someday We Will All Be Together” was one of those songs that took a while but as we all know it became one of the favorite classic songs in Jewish music. The song was written by Dina Storch (Kaluszyner at that time). She submitted it to JEP as they were in the midst of recording their fourth album. My brother Rabbi Yosef Chaim Golding along with Moshe Hauben who were the JEP record producers fell in love with the song immediately. They recorded the song using arrangements by Yisroel Lamm with the intention that it be sung by the JEP choir with a child soloist.

At that time Suki and I were recording the V’chol Ma’aminim album with Mordechai Ben David. My brother asked me if I thought MBD would agree to sing the song for JEP. I told him he never sings on other people’s albums but in this case it being such a great song and the profits going to tzedakah it was worth a try to ask him. So my brother approached MBD and played him the song. Mordechai was blown away. There was one problem though. The music had originally been recorded in a child’s key. I told my brother not to worry — we would begin recording in two days and we’d redo the song in MBD’s key.

When Yisroel Lamm rearranged the song he added the intro that is now probably the most famous intro today. Suki played it on his synthesizer. It sounded awesome. Two days later I was in the studio when MBD came to sing “Someday.” Now you must understand that the original words to the second high part are: “Avraham Avinu will be there to greet us Yitzchak will stand by and smile Moshe Rabbeinu will lead us once again…”

When MBD came to those words he stopped and said “What about Yaakov?” Someone in the studio said no big deal it’s okay. But MBD said “It is a big deal. Give me two minutes.”